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That reminds me--I also don't get all bent out of shape when a song is used in a commercial. So what, who cares? I didn't write it, and it was likely obtained in a legal manner. To be honest, it probably annoys me more that "I Wanna Be Sedated" somehow along the way became a wedding-reception staple.
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OH GOD NO! It was just an example!
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If George Lucas made updates available alongside the originals, I'd be OK with it. But Han shot first, and that's the version I want my son to see. I also prefer the Return of the Jedi version that doesn't have Hayden Christensen with Yoda and Obi Wan Kenobi in the fire at the end -- mostly because I prefer to ignore that Episodes 1-3 exist and because I found Anakin unbearably whiny and Hayden Christensen just looks whiny to me now. (Rewatching Star Wars now, I find Luke pretty whiny too, but people occasionally told him no, and he didn't always get his way so it's bearable.)
Right there with you, auntlada! Luckily, my household has all the versions at hand. Since childhood, you guys, I have thought Luke was whiny (I was 6 when "A New Hope" was released); all my friends thought Luke was dreamy but not this girl! Han was then, and is still now, my main man--I even have the most beautiful blaster tattoo in the American traditional style on my inner left arm, which I got after the last movie--and some of you know why! (I also have a Millennium Falcon, same style, on my left shoulder). Young Anakin was ultra-whiny too (and that hair!), though I have had ranting soliloquies at my SW-fanatic BF about how maybe he had his reasons for it (I am sorry--yes, he was a jerk but he he was also treated horribly!).
Also, when I was little, my friends and I used to yell, "Last one to the swings has to kiss Tarkin!" The geekery started young (as evidenced by our gigantic wall decal at home.)QuoteI agree in theory that getting your dander up that a movie was remade is silly; just don't see it. But I know myself, and if The Thin Man is ever remade, I'm going to lose my shit.
Understandable. But will you rant all over Facebook about how something that is still around for you to choose instead has be OMGwrecked? I do think a bit of moral outrage at the onset is OK--in fact, it's entertaining in some cases. I might get all huffy and puffy about my beloved Jaws (and I did have a moment of indignation over A Nightmare on Elm Street). But I'd settle down knowing I have it (in more than one format, haha!) at my disposal...and most likely see the new version anyway, haha!
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It's like people are acting like a second version of something causes the first to somehow completely disappear! Now, I would understand the outrage if, say, Thomas Kincaid (Painter of Light!) covered the Sistine Chapel ceiling or something but not for movies--not even George Lucas's updates to Star Wars! And, as far as Dawn of the Dead goes, that remake was good stuff! (However, in the same-ish vein and yet another peeve, Microsoft may indeed have ruined Excel--ugh, the latest version is buggy as fuck and I cannot deal with it!)
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(I posted this earlier by mistake in a different thread thinking I was here; sorry if it's repetitive to people in both.)
While I get the gut-feeling reflexive ire about something you love getting a modern update, I do not get when people spout off about "So-and-so ruined it!" Rob Zombie did not "ruin" Halloween, no one at whatever award show that was "ruined" a Prince song, Puff Daddy did not "ruin" "Every Breath You Take," the author of Scarlett did not "ruin" Gone With the Wind, etc...
It's all still there for you to experience and enjoy! OK, do I think it would be a good idea to remake Jaws? No--no, I personally do not. But if that's your thing, then have at it.
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Hee! I don't have a problem with remakes/modern adaptations at all. If I want to watch the original, it's usually accessible. Plus, to me, most TV isn't timeless - it's almost always a product of the time in which it aired. Nothing wrong with that, but nothing wrong with updates, either.
While I get the gut-feeling reflexive ire about something you love getting a modern update, I do not get when people spout off about "So-and-so ruined it!" Rob Zombie did not "ruin" Halloween, no one at whatever award show that was "ruined" a Prince song, Puff Daddy did not "ruin" "Every Breath You Take," the author of Scarlett did not "ruin" Gone With the Wind, etc...
It's all still there for you to experience and enjoy! OK, do I think it would be a good idea to remake Jaws? No--no, I personally do not. But if that's your thing, then have at it.
YIKES! I think I thought I was in the "Pet Peeves" thread! But my point still stands--just pretend that I used only TV examples!-
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I do this very rarely. I happened to the other day, when I had put on a face of make-up, and got the eyes looking good. Then, I started crying over something, just a few tears, and I had no tissue handy. It is a relatively ineffective attempt to air dry the tears with some "wind." It is mostly used to fake that one is crying - one merely blows them away with a few flutters of the hands. Sob!!
Off topic but might I recommend Pacifica products (no, I do not work for the company, haha!)? Waterproof as hell yet easy to take off just by washing your face like normal--no separate eye-makeup remover needed! The other day, I saw the dumbest meme on FB that made me laugh on and off all day to the point of tears...and no running at all! Also, inexpensive and cruelty-free/vegan.
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DO IT--watch them all! Join this circus in which we have no idea what we posted where or who said what on which show, haha!
I may have exhausted myself with this over the last couple of weeks.
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A lady at work brought in maple syrup scented soap for the lady's room. I hated it!! I used it once. My hands smelled like syrup all day and I just felt really sticky even though my hands were perfectly clean, lol.
That might be the worst invention I have ever heard of. With the exception of citrusy stuff and maybe cucumber, I can't stand when soaps or lotions or candles smell like food. Doesn't even matter if I like the food--NO FOOD SCENTS!
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Haha, I thought so it was something like that but I'd assumed that the wife saw the hot sexies as well, at first--as evidenced by the fact that she didn't say, "But he's 85 years old!" when the husband said that Clark (?) was in the wife's sister's room that night. Then again, she didn't look at all surprised at the end, as you mention.
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I would tell her to go ahead and handle her life how she sees fit--and let others do the same, while she's at it!
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Maybe the parents didn't know what triggered the argument or didn't know she had eaten any. Perhaps it wasn't until the pineapple was found in her digestive tract on autopsy that they realized the pineapple was a problem. Same thing with the flashlight. If they didn't see her get hit and Burk didn't tell them what he'd hit her with, they might not have known the flashlight was potentially evidence.
Oh definitely; I don't expect that they knew anything about that part of an investigation. It's just hard to get my head around doing all that other stuff and not clearing out anything that could have been part of or in the vicinity of the incident. And I cannot imagine one person, let alone two, not asking what inflicted the damage to their child's head.
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I just wish something here would be out of the realm of anything!
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I am kind of curious as to what was going on with them wearing their robes to dinner...I've stayed at inns such as that and it never occurred to me to not put on some dress-for-dinner clothes...however, now that I know that it's a thing...I ain't mad at it.
I don't think I would like that--I want everything to be clean and unadulterated when I go to bed later, no "outside" stuff on me or my jim-jams! Yes, I know that's ridiculous, especially when sleeping in a hotel bed (ugh) but that's how I roll (full of neuroses).
When it cut back to Jacqueline on What's Her name's lap, I was legitimately "WTF?" all over the place! I'm not saying I would never do such a thing at all, just not to someone I barely know and am I'm in a heated debate with!
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Agree. It looks like there is a wealth of information there, but I took one look and went, "nope". I just can't sit there and pour through a site like that.
Is there a way to convert websites to a simpler aesthetic or view?
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I hate Chris Laurita for putting up with Jac's bullshit. Where are his balls? Why doesn't he ever tell her to STFU?
Somehow, even in the muck of this show, he seems a little more reasonable and aware of the presence of a camera than the others do. Maybe he's hesitant to appear disloyal to his wife in front of others and tells her in private to cut the shit?
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Do you see a intruder doing all of this without leaving evidence? I don't want to think of any parent, or human doing this to their child or another human. However, I simply can't believe in ghost. It would've had to have been a ghost with the scant to zero amount of evidence that they left behind.
But there was evidence that is not from the family--the boot print, the DNA, maybe even the flashlight, hypothesized stun-gun marks, duct tape from a roll that was never found. Whether that stuff is from this event or not, it's still there (or, you know, conspicuously not there, as the case may be).
Oops, did not know that boot thing--never heard that. I would like to read more of that Candy Rose site but that shit is so amateurly designed, ugly, and hard to read that it makes me want to bludgeon myself with a flashlight. Less is more, Candy Rose!
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I was so bored with House of Darkness, I tuned out after forty minutes.
Am I nuts or did this movie hardly even make sense? It simultaneously seemed like there was too much happening and like stuff was missing. It was like it wanted to be The Shining with a dash of Paranormal Activity. There were parts with people gasping but we didn't see what upset them! And then there was this super-weird cut to a mountain-scape for kind of a long time and for no apparent reason. And on top of that, there was the adorable but annoying "little" girl who was almost her mom's height...but talked like a four-year-old.
OH! And what the hell was with the hot sexy neighbors anyway? We kept seeing them but what was going on there?
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That fight was weird as hell, even for this show. I assume there was much more because what the hell and where did that come from all of a sudden? Seriously Jacqueline--this is not the way to relaunch your "Lucy & Ethel" friendship!
QuoteAlso, the grammar!! Teresa, you are not going to ~bring~ Gabriela to soccer. You are going to ~take~ Gabriela to soccer. Christ. And, JoeGO, it's ~have GONE~ not ~have went~ . How did these knuckleheads graduate high school??
The communication skills on this show are lacking all around, but these two examples are hardly limited to Joe and Teresa. In real life, I know a ton of educated people--friends, peers, coworkers, higher-ups (!!!)--who do the "have went" thing. I cringe at it but it is rampant, along with "should of" in writing, and "lie" vs. "lay" errors, bad apostrophes (I see that all the time online and on TV: "The Chrisley's House," for example), and--one of the worst to me--"I wish I would have." No, you wish you had). So, "bring vs. take," IMO as a copy editor/writer, is practically a non-issue at this point; even legit and respected grammar sources' explanations of "proper" usage are vague at best. What always gets me in real life, online, and on TV is that bizarre overcorrection of "I" where "me" should be--and, of course, reality-show participants' tendency toward "s/he and I's" or, another example that I see all over the place, "Her and Jacqueline should shut up."
QuoteLove that Tre reminded the audience in a TH that Jac once punched Caroline in the face.
That's the one thing in the "Pros" column of my mental "Pros & Cons" list about Jacqueline.
QuoteThe absolute best part of the episode was Joe skiing. I was laughing my ass off!! Especially since he was bragging what a great skier he was. The girls were talking and you see Joe in the background screaming as he goes downhill and then he lands in the trees. I had freaking tears in my eyes I was laughing so hard!!
I'm a sucker for shit going on in the background; for whatever reason it makes me laugh. There was a scene in The X-Files ("Hollywood A.D.") once with Mulder in the foreground while, way back behind him, was Scully trying to teach Téa Leoni how to run in heels. I loved it.
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I don't notice--did they use the term "real woman" last night? I hate it (unless, of course, it's being used to distinguish us from, say, robot women. And by "us" I mean all of us, not just starting at size 10 or 12 or whichever it is).
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Reminds me of the recent scam calls about your Windows-based computer needing work. I let the guy rattle on for a while with his pseudo-IT jargon and when he asked for my info, I said, "I have a Mac, you asshole."
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when people JUMP OUT to scare people.
I think this is funny to do and have done but there is a caveat: I am a skittish person and (as evidenced at least five times in my adult life with four different people on the receiving end) will punch you in the face. Sure, we'll laugh later (or at least I will) but you best consider the integrity of your nose before committing to this kind of antics. (Haha, a coworker and I actually have a game of this in our office. He hasn't gotten punched though--merely slapped. We are not mature.)
This is why I can't (not "won't"--I mean "cannot") go to haunted attractions. It sucks because I love spooky things and stories. -
My plan is to be shipped off the the Body Farm so as to educate people in the field (perhaps even a literal field!) that I wish I'd pursued in life!
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Yeah, we had the same problem at a McD's. My son HATED onions, especially those little diced onions McD's puts on burgers. We always ordered one burger with "No onions". And, it always came WITH onions (but they wrote "No onions" on the wrapper). If we were eating at home, I'd have to scrape the burger and bun, then add ketchup (because you can't scrape just onions). At times, I'd had to throw out the bun and give him a piece of bread on top of the burger, because the hint of onion taste was still in the bun. One day, the manager was at the counter, and I asked him why it was impossible to get a burger with no onions. He very confidently assured me that it was no problem. We ordered, and he called out to the kitchen to make sure that one burger was "no onion". Ok - the food came, and he pointed out to me, in his condescending way, that one burger was marked "no onion", so that, see? it was no problem! Yeah, so I unwrapped the burger and pointed out to the little white things all over the inside, and asked him what they were. Yeah, he had them make it over and gave us some coupons. I pointed out to him that at his store, it was obvious that "no onions" meant "regular burger with the words no onion on the wrapper", because that was what we always got.
Those tiny onions were the bane of my existence as a little kid! My mom insisted I couldn't possibly taste them, which was infuriating to me then (and, let's be honest, now!). We'd scrape them off but never get all of them, and by then, the soggy bun had their cloying essence all over it. It was horrid and my stomach just did a little twisty thing while I was typing. And, as an adult, I had to do the "Then what are these?!" thing to someone at Burger King!
A related peeve is menus that don't disclose onions in some options, especially when onions are indeed noted on others! It's like onions have become an innocuous garnish! If I see "onion" listed, I know to ask my server to keep it away from me or to order something else; if I don't see it, then I might not think to mention it. I have started to ask anyway, no matter what I'm ordering. Same with sushi (or "sushi," as a vegan); I need to make sure there are no chopped scallions rolled up in there!
I also hate when servers ask if I'm allergic. OK, I get it, they're likely doing that to ensure my food is onion-free, which is good on them. But at the same time, isn't it enough that I, as the customer, asked nicely no matter what my reason? Because, no, you cannot just pick them off and proceed; everything is tainted with their potent scent!
My mom and dad swear that, as a little child, I would "eat onions like apples." I suspect that their pluralization is hyperbole and that maybe I did it one time (if ever!)...and--eureka!--therein is the root of this lifelong hatred.Haha, once while drinking with friends, including one who was so motherly even though she didn't even have kids at the time, I accidentally ate something with onion in it. She saw my face and instinctively held out her hand! That's some real-deal "I've got your back" action! And, at my BF's mom's wedding reception, I took a delicious-looking appetizer from a tray and put it in my mouth before realizing there were onions in it. I had no napkin and there was no trash can that I could see (because, as you now know, I am not above spitting it right out) so I swallowed it whole just to avoid chewing and releasing the horror even further! The look on my BF's face...
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Me too. She's my least favorite on that show. LINDA RULES!